Quotes About Potential

Had I been more responsible I might have made something of myself as a junk bond trader, long-haul trucker or perhaps a plumbing contractor.

I see the poem or the novel ending with an open door.

The headmaster asked to read one of my poems at some celebration or other when I was about 10. When I look back, that is phenomenal encouragement.

I am not less poet; I am more conscious of all that I am, am not, and might become.

That's the best thing that classic can do, is it can return to us from our own past to give us lessons about the future, and it can give us a sense of both who we were and who we could become.

I had trained in Hindustani classical singing and my mother thought I could become a playback singer, but I always wanted to become an actor.

With only one novel to her credit, Anna Jarzab can't quite be classified in Werlin country, but 'All Unquiet Things' is a big step in that direction.

I won't say I've closed the door on acting.

Many people have told me I could be a coach, but it doesn't appeal.

I don't think there's any difference in my passion than when I was a young coach. I hope somebody in some way realizes I could be an asset, but we'll just wait and see.

All my coaches tell me that I have been under achieving.

Coaches from Celtic actually came to my door but I wasn't interested. I thought I'd get lost in the system. I wasn't ready for it.

Anything is possible, and if an opportunity turned up, and it was under the right circumstances, I would love to come back to England in a coaching capacity.

It'd be cool to do something with Coldplay, and Ryan Tedder's amazing.

I'd love to collaborate with Drake. I think he's awesome.

Maybe you think, 'I'm not college material.' Maybe you worry that you don't have the money. Then you take the SAT. You see that colleges are getting in touch with you. You begin to think maybe you are ready for college.

I always thought I'd end up at a small school and have to play my way up to what I thought I could be. But no, I've always had confidence in myself. That was never a thing. It was just whether or not colleges or coaches felt that way about myself.

I think, between me and Chris Brown, if you combined our games, you'd get, like, a real Division I basketball player.

I'd have thought my particular brand of quirkiness, combined with sharp intelligence and a fine voice, would have yielded more. But it hasn't. Yet!

Careers will come and go. Talent is always there.

I've often been told that if music doesn't work out I could be a comedian.

My brother was scouted for a commercial when he was three, and it was just because he could speak clearly and was well behaved, basically. I don't think he had any amazing acting ability at that age - although he is actually a great actor.

When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.

I believe everyone is capable of just about anything if you commit yourself to it.